Fire-escape



- 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. M. SCHMIDT. FIRE ESCAPE.

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FIRE ESCAPE No. 595,973. Patented Dec. 21,1897

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WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

MAX SCHMIDT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FIRE-ESCAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,973, dated December 21 1897.

Application filed April29, 1897. Serial No. 634,454. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX SCHMIDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fire-Escapes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a fire-escape which can ordinarily be used as a chair and which has a-spreading back, acting as a holder to retain the chair in place while the latter holds a support or ladder; and the invention resides in the novel features of construction set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a fire-escape. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan, view of Fig. 1 with the chair-back spread and the seat removed. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an inverted plan view of the chair-seat. Fig. 6 is an edge elevation of the chair-seat. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of a modification. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of another modification.

The chair is shown with front and rear legs at 1 and 2, respectively. The legs support a box or receptacle 3, shown with an open top and adapted to be closed by the chair seat 4. This seat, as seen in Fig. 5, is provided with perforations 5, and the front legs 1, Fig. 3, have perforations 6. When the seat 4 is put in place, Fig. 1, the perforations 5 and 6, registering with one another, allow the insertion of pins or fastenings 7 to keep the seat 4 from slipping out of place.

The seat 4 has lugs 8, adapted to engage eyes or perforations 9, Fig. 2, in the back, which is composed of sections or wings 10. The back-sections are jointed or pivoted at 11 to the chair or to a wall or side of box 3. These bolts or pivots 11, as seen in Fig.

. 3, serve also to attach or secure an eyebar or plate 12, to which are secured the sides 13 of a rope ladder or support 13 14. The other end of the rope ladder is attached to the under side of seat 4, as seen in Fig. 5.

When the device is not in use as a fire-escape, the ladder 13 14 coiled or stored in box the rope ladder.

3 and the seat or cover 4 being on the box,

as seen in Fig. 1, the device can be used as a chair. In case of fire the seat is removed, and when thrown, for example, out of a window will carry with it the attached end of draws lugs 8 out of eyes 9, allowing the backsections 10 to drop to horizontal or spread position, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4. These spread sections 10 prevent the chair from being drawn out of the window or following the seat, so that the chair and attached end of the rope ladder are held for enabling the ladder to be used for descent or escape.

Of course the device can be modified without departing from the invention, which embodies the combination, with a chair-body, of a spreading back opened by the withdrawal of the chair-seat to enable the chair to be held and to bear or sustain a ladder or like support. For example, the ladder 13 14 at its junction with seat 4 may have a bag or receiver for containing and lowering children, valuables, and the like. In Fig. 8 the ladder is shown terminating in ropes or holders 15 for the bag-body 16. The seat 4 in place of having the lugs 8 directly attached may have such lugs carried by arms or rests 17, as seen in Fig. 7. The lugs or holders 8 when the seat is in place serve to hold the spreading back or sections 10 closed, as noted.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A chair having a spreading sectional back and a seat made to engage or hold the back closed,and a ladder or support connected to the chair substantially as described.

2. A chair having a spreading sectional back, a box, a seat made to close the box and to engage or hold the back closed, and a ladder or support adapted to be stored in the box and connected to the chair and to the seat substantially as described.

3. A chair having a spreading sectional back and a seat made to engage or hold the back olosed,and aladder or support connected to the chair, said chair having perforated legs and the seat being correspondingly perforated for the engagement of lugs or fastenin gs substantially as described.

The withdrawal of seat 4' 4. A legged chair provided with a box,backsections jointed to the chair, and a seat adapted to close or cover the boX and provided with lugs or holders for engaging the back-sections, said box being provided with a ladder or support connected to the seat, and said seat being adapted to be secured to the chair-legs substantially as described.

5. A chair-body provided with a box, backsections jointed to the chair, and a seat adapted to close or cover the box and provided with lugs or holders for engaging the back-sections, said box being provided with a bar or plate, and a ladder or support connected to said bar and to the seat substantially as described.

6. A chair provided with a boX,a seat adapted to close the box an attaching-plate at said box, a ladder or support connected to the said bag being supported by the ladder substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

MAX SCHMIDT.

WVitnesses:

WM. 0. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

